Author Mark Leon Goldberg

The aid effort will in earnest today as the international community spent much of the day yesterday getting mobilized. The extent of the damage, and its political implications, is yet to be determined. “The ear...

Bill McKibben started out as a journalist. In 1989 he wrote The End of Nature, which was first book for a general audience about climate change. It was a blockbuster hit, so he wrote more books and articles...

Several countries hosted elections over the weekend, many of them quite important! Here are some of the highlights:
-Haitians began voting Sunday for a new president -- with a choice of 54 candidates -- as ...

October 24, 1945 is the day that the United Nations officially came to being. On that day the UN charter was ratified by a majority of its signatories, including all permanent members of the UN Security Council...

For the past six years, a bi-partisan polling team has regularly surveyed American voters about their impressions of the United Nations and global affairs more broadly. Some of the questions they ask a sample o...

Meanwhile, the government dismisses the “irresponsible” use of the term ‘famine.’ “In its latest assessment of food security in the country, published on Thursday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classificat...